Derek Law's Bibliography

Category: Anti-submarine Warfare

Name:	Anti-submarine Warfare
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Documents: 10

1247	HACKMANN, Willem. Seek and Strike: Sonar, Anti-Submarine Warfare and the Royal Navy 1914–1954. xxxv, 487p., bibliog., illus., index. London: HMSO, 1984. ISBN: 0112904238. A comprehensive technical and organisational history.	view
1248	LLEWELLYN-JONES, Malcolm. The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1917-1949 (Cass Series: Naval Policy and History, 37). xv, 223p., bibliog. London: Routledge, 2006. ISBN: 0415385326. ISBN: 0415385326. Focuses on the later war period and Cold War, when truly submersible boats became capable of continuously submerged operations.	view
1249	MEIGS, Montgomery C. Slide Rules and Submarines: American Scientists and Subsurface Warfare in World War II. xxiii, 269p., bibliog., illus., index. Washington: National Defense UP, 1989. ISBN: 0898759056. Looks at the interface between scientific research, its operational introduction, and institutional inhibitors of change, taking US antisubmarine warfare and the Battle of the Atlantic along with Admiral King's role, as an example.	view
1250	OWEN, David. Anti-Submarine Warfare: An Illustrated History. 224p., bibliog., illus., index. Barnsley: Seaforth, 2007. ISBN: 1844157032. Attempts to cover the whole topic from technology to tactics in accessible form.	view
1251	PRICE, Alfred. Aircraft versus Submarine: The Evolution of the Anti-Submarine Aircraft, 1912 to 1972. xvi, 268, [24]p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Kimber, 1973. ISBN: 0718304128. A full history from early days to the Nimrod of today. A second revised and expanded edition appeared in 1980.	view
1252	WATTS, Anthony J. The U-Boat Hunters. 192p., bibliog., illus. London: Macdonald & Jane's, 1976. ISBN: 035608244X. A profusely illustrated account of the development of anti–submarine warfare during the war.	view
1253	WHINNEY, Bob. The U-Boat Peril: An Anti-Submarine Commander's War. 160p., bibliog., illus., index. Poole: Blandford, 1986; New York: Sterling, 1987. ISBN: 0713718218. An autobiography. He began the war as A/S specialist in Duncan in Shanghai, but quickly returned to the UK. After a brief spell in the A/S Warfare School he went to Cossack in the summer of 1940 and took part in the Bismarck hunt. He then went to join the staff of C-in-C South Atlantic as Fleet A/S Officer. In early 1943 he took over Wanderer and joined EG B1 in the Atlantic and Arctic and finally served as a D-Day convoy escort. In October 1944 he joined the Anti-U-Boat Division of the Admiralty.	view
1254	WILLIAMS, Mark. Captain Gilbert Roberts, RN and the Anti-U-Boat School. iv, 186p., index. London: Cassell, 1979. ISBN: 0304303860. Recalled in 1940 to the Admiralty, in 1942 he set up the Western Approaches Tactical Unit, which devised tactics and passed them on to escort Commanders.	view
4457	SHOWELL, Jak P. Mallmann. Dönitz, U-Boats, Convoys: The British Version of His Memoirs from the Admiralty's Secret Anti-Submarine Reports. xvi, 208p., illus., Barnsley: Frontline, 2013. ISBN: 1848327013. Combines Dönitz’s memoirs in a parallel text with the Admiralty’s secret Monthly Anti-Submarine Reports to give a novel view of the U-Boat war.	view
3193	WORLEDGE, G. R. Contact! HMAS Rushcutter and Australia's Submarine Hunters 1939–1946. xxi, 490p., illus., index. Sydney: Anti-Submarine Officers' Association, 1994. ISBN: 064615446X. A straightforward account of the setting up and running of the A/S Warfare School at Sydney, with appendices giving class lists, honours, and awards etc. Almost three-quarters of the book however is devoted to personal reminiscences of "graduates" who served widely in the RN and RAN.	view